There are countless reasons to stop smoking. Especially at this stage of your life, you have one very important reason - your baby. Consider the wonderful motivation your baby gives you to quit.

Tobacco is the single greatest cause of disease and death in the United States and takes approximately 430,000 lives each year. An estimated 26,208 smoking attributable low birth weight babies were born in the U.S. in 2001. If a woman smokes, she is more likely to experience ectopic pregnancies and spontaneous abortions, and is 50% more likely to experience pre-term delivery, rupture of membranes, placental abruption, and placenta previa. Babies born to women who smoke: